Apparatus for storing adn unloading materials.



No. 739,760. PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903; I G. G. VERMEER.

APPARATUS FOR STORING AND UNLOADING MATERIALS.

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PATENTED SEPT. 22,1903. 0. c. VERMEER.

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APPLIOA'TIOB FILED JUNE 24, 1903.

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OAREL o. VERMEER, or BINNENHAVEN, 0. z., ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

APPARATUS FOR STORINGAND UNLOADING MATERIALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,760, dated September 22, 1903.

Application filed June 24,1903. Serial No. 162,936. on model.)

My invention relates to apparatus for storing and unloading materials, and has for itsobject to construct on land apit designed for the reception of the materials and adapted for arranging a bucket elevator therein, this elevator extending from the bottom of the said pit to a certain height above the mouth of the same and being mounted on a truck,

so that it can be raised and turned down upon this truck.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a constructional form of my inventionby way of example.

Figure 1 is a transverse section, and Fig. 2 a plan, of the pit with the bucketvelevator arranged to be moved in the longitudinal direction of the pit. Figs. 3 and 4c are side elevations, and Fig. 5 is a sectional plan showing the bucket elevator.

The pit for storing the materials is of special form in transverse section, the lateral walls 0 of the same being joined by two sloping bottom parts eand a central horizontal part f, so as to constitute a channel into which the bucket elevator a dips, this elevator being mounted on a truck arranged to run at the top of the pit in the longitudinal direction of the same, Fig. l. I provide in the transverse walls 02 of the pit recesses g, Fig. 2, into which the bucket elevator a is moved during the time the materials are introduced into the pit.

To the left and right hand sides of the original position, but to enable the pit to be filled again behind the elevator during its forward movement, it is expedient to so arrange the elevator upon its truck that it may be raised and turned down upon the same. On either side of the elevator is provided a guide 7) for a slide 1:, furnished with a trunnion Z, which is fitted to turn in a bracket m, carried by the truck. A indlass having toothed wheels 42 in gear with a rack o, secured to the elevator, serves for raising this elevator to a height at which its point of gravity coincides with the axis of the trunnions Z, thus facilitating the tu rning movement, For guiding the bucket elevator while it is being raised, for fixing the same in its operative position, and for limiting its downward movement I secure to the elevator a slotted guide down, Fig. 4. Owing to the possibility of raising the bucket elevator prior to being turned down, this elevator requires only to be moved back a little in order-to be turned downand afterward to be placed upright for dipping behind the material in the pit. Thus the pit may be completely filled before the back movement of the elevator takes place, so that long stoppages will be avoided.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In apparatus of the character described, a pit having lateral sloping bottom parts joined by a central horizontal bottom part to form a channel, and recesses provided in its transverse walls, a truck arranged at the top of the pit and adapted to be moved in the longitudinal direction thereof, brackets carried by the truck, a bucket elevator fitted to turn about trunnions held in the brackets, this elevator extending to the bottom of the said channel, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. 2. In apparatus of the character described, a pit having lateral sloping bottom parts joined by a central horizontal bottom part to form a channel, and recesses provided in its transverse walls, a truck arranged at the top of the pit and adapted to be moved in the longitudinal direction thereof, brackets carried-by the truck, a bucket elevator fitted to turn about trunnions held in the brackets, this elevator extending to the bottom of the said channel, and means for raising the elevator and turning the same about its trunnions, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

3. In apparatus of the character described, a pit having lateral sloping bottom parts joined by a central horizontal bottom part to form a channel, and recesses provided in its transverse Walls, a truck arranged at the top of the pit and adapted to be moved in the longitudinal direction thereof, brackets carried by the truck, a bucket elevator fitted to turnabout trunnions held in the brackets,

a pit having lateral sloping bottom parts joined by a central horizontal bottom part to form a channel, and recesses provided in its transverse Walls, a truck arranged at the top of the pit, brackets, a bucket elevator fitted to turn about trunnions held in the brackets, this elevator extending to the bottom of the said channel, partitions attached to both sides of the elevator, guides secured to the sides of the elevator, slides held in the said guides and provided with trunnions held in the aforesaid brackets, a rack secured to the side name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

O. C. VERMEER.

Witnesses:

S. LISTOE, AIRE H. VOONWINDEN. 

